Description

Item title reads - Bill Brown buys a car.

Great Missenden, Berkshire.

M/S's of shiny new chrome American car. Various shots of dilapidated cars with grass growing out of them. People bid for them and then tow them away to do them up. Various shots of people towing their cars away, one uses his horse. Another drives his away but the engine catches fire, people rally round to put it out. M/S of a signpost. Various shots as men clean engine parts by the roadside. One man tries to crank his car up then kicks it in frustration. Two men and a dog look down onto the bonnet, M/S of baby birds nesting there.

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Cataloguer's note: This is a copy of the story with the same title on *PM1378*.

10 telling images selected from British Pathé's extensive WWI footage. 'The war to end all wars' was a war without parallel: over 70 million military personnel were involved and over 17 million people died.